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** [http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr_save_pages/detail_5_8157.html FAA Link to the Offical TFR]
  
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* '''Mississippi Coast [[TFR]]''' - Omaha-45 (US Customs P-3 AWACS out of Corpus Christi) is providing the primary [[TFR]] operational logistics and tasking to rescue aircraft for the Mississippi Coast.
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* '''Mississippi Coast [[TFR]]''' - Omaha-45 (US Customs P-3 AWACS out of Corpus Christi) is providing the primary [[TFR]] operational logistics and tasking to rescue aircraft for the Mississippi Coast. (No longer active, kept here for historical purposes)
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** 126.875 VHF Primary   (No Longer Active and Used)
 
** [http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr_save_pages/detail_5_7600.html FAA Link to the Offical TFR]
 
** [http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr_save_pages/detail_5_7600.html FAA Link to the Offical TFR]
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NOTE: the Mississippi Coast TFR is still in effect, however ATC is back operational in Mississippi, therefor CBP P-3s are no longer providing Airborne support.  T
  
 
* '''US Ships''' - Aircraft operating in the vicinity of US Navy Ships must contact them on 277.800 / 123.450
 
* '''US Ships''' - Aircraft operating in the vicinity of US Navy Ships must contact them on 277.800 / 123.450

Revision as of 14:11, 11 September 2005

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Radio Systems Statuses

The following is known about Public Safety Communications Systems in the affected areas.

If you have updates, please add them below!

Louisiana

  • NOPD's Wide Area EDACS ProVoice system is now up and operational. The system survived the initial hurricane, but subsequent flooding had knocked out generators, however the generators have been brought back online.
  • The Jefferson Parish Smartzone system is currently down. The 350ft self supporting tower was knocked down during the storm. ITAC1 is being used for the East bank and ITAC3 for the West bank comms. Currently operating all the comms from the Galeria building at I-10 and Causeway Blvd.
  • St Tammany Parish's EDACS ProVoice system is currently back UP and operational.
  • Most sites for the Lousisiana State Smartzone system are operational, however reports indicate that the North Shore Smartzone sites are currently down. Communications are occuring on the Smartzone system in the New Orleans Metro Area.
    • The Bridge City Site is Down
    • The LaPlace Site is UP
    • Northshore Sites are Down
    • Michigan State Police is bringing hundreds of their portables, which have been reprogrammed to operate on the LSP system, to help support the state's recovery activities.
  • Wasington Parish - All power, Telephone, Water are down, The whole parish is with gas except for a few stations that some gas. The Police, Sheriff, and Emergency Management Agencies and their respective repeaters are on backup generators So they have Local Parish wide communications. But No communication in or out the parish.
  • Ad-Hoc Communications Systems
    • Motorola has delivered a 700 MHz Communications trailer to the Louisiana State Police ,however it is unknown where it is being used.
    • Remote agencies on site are using the following:
      • Orange County FL Units - 800 MHz NPSPAC Simplex Direct
      • Austin, TX Units - 800 MHz NPSPAC Simplex Direct

Mississippi

  • Harrison County EDACS system is currently operational
  • Gulfport - Unknown
  • Biloxi - Unknown

Alabama

  • Mobile - Unknown

live feed when working at http://www.al.com/mobilepolice/audio/index.ssf

Live Feeds of Public Safety Communications

David Hitchner's Feed

David Hitchner in Baton Rouge is providing a dual stereo feed from Baton Rouge.

The Right Channel is in Search mode providing all of Baton Rouge's State system site freqs. The Left channel is providing US Customs/US Coast Guard Operations. This feed can be found here:

Left Channel 
123.02500  CBP/ICE TFR Ops VHF Sec
123.05000  West Jefferson Hospital
134.90000  CBP/ICE TFR Ops VHF Pri
138.45000  USCG Scene Coordination
142.25000  USCG Scene Coordination
237.90000  USCG Operations Secondary
238.60000  USCG Scene Coordination
282.42500  CBP/ICE TFR Ops UHF (BLUE-1)
283.65000  USCG Scene Coordination
289.65000  USCG Scene Coordination
326.15000  USCG Air to Ground Primary
345.00000  USCG Operations Primary
379.05000  USCG Air to Ground Secondary
Right Channel 
Louisiana System Site #1
Smartzone in Baton Rouge All TGs

Feed by Dustin Childers

This feed is currently down.

Dustin Childers (dchilders@gmail.com, Google Talk: dchilders@gmail.com), located in West Monroe Louisiana (NW area of the state), is streaming talkgroups from the State Smartzone site located there:

Talkgroups being monitored are:

  • 656 LSP Troop B F1
  • 41264 Office of Public Health
  • 20656 National Guard B - Admin
  • 20688 National Guard B - Ops
  • 20720 National Guard B - Security
  • 6800 LSP Statewide F1
  • 43376 Louisiana Hospital Association

Houston AstroDome Operations

Might be down, none working as of 0400 ET 7 Sept

San Antonio Operations

This feed is currently down and not running.

Other Audio Feed's Operations

Someone Please Update this with where these feeds are broadcasting from?!?:

HF Amateur Radio Nets

Callsigns in Use on the Feeds

BASE on the Louisiana State System 

Bayou77 EOC -- Bayou77 Emerg. Ops. Center
Bulldog JOC -- Military Police Joint Ops. Center
Eagle Base -- Colonels For Ft Bood 4 Avn Btn
HQ ## -- State Police Units Assigned to Headquarters
New Orleans EOC -- New Orleans Emerg. Ops. Center
OEP -- Office of Emergency Preparedness
Pelican Base -- Aircraft Joint Ops Center
Region 9 EOC -- Region 9 Emerg. Ops. Center
Saint Charles EOC -- St. Charles Emerg. Ops. Center
State EOC -- Louisiana State Emerg. Ops. Center
Saint Bernhard EOC- Saint Bernhard Emerg. Ops. Center

MOBILES on the Louisiana State System 

Airvac ## -- Patient evacuation heli's flying to and from hospitals
Bulldog # -- Military Police Units
Defender 1 -- Military Aircraft providing coverage near troops operating in city area (SWAT)
Dragon 15 -- Unk.
Eagle ##  = 4th Avn Btn out of Fort Hood TX (Just back from Iraq)
Fuel Mobile 1 -- Fuel Truck
Fuel Mobile 2 -- Fuel Truck
Fuel Mobile 3 -- Fuel Truck seemed to be primarily for medical centers earlier
Pelican 6 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations.
Pelican 3 -- Military aircraft working rescue operations.
Refuel 2 -- Likely KC-130 Hercules tanker plane.
Roughneck # -- Unknown.
Tiger 5 -- Likely WC-130 Hercules cargo plane.
Thunderbird -- Oklahoma Air National Guard
Viper -- Cobra Attack Helo
Viper LNO -- Viper Liaison Officer

US Coast Guard / US Customs / US Navy 

Cactus 7407 - Unid
HAMMER      - US Customs / ICE / CBP C3I --> March AFB CA
Hawk 01/04  - US Navy E2 Hawkeye - (ID'd as such 09/04/05)
Omaha 44    - US Customs P-3 AWACS Out of Corpus Christi TX (New Orleans TFR)
Omaha 45    - US Customs P-3 AWACS Out of Corpus Christi TX (Mississippi Coast TFR)
Omaha ##    - US Customs Aircraft
CLOSEOUT    - US Navy E2C Hawkeye AWACS Control Aircraft
NOLA AIR    - US Coast Guard New Orleans
MOBILE AIR  - US Coast Guard Mobile AL
Quitter 11  - Unid
Raptor ##   - Unid
RESCUE ##   - US Coast Guard
Wizard ##   - US Coast Guard (helicopter)
WOLF ##     - US Navy VAW-77 E2-C AWACS Aircraft (assisting CBP Omaha P-3's) 
NAVY NEW ORLEANS - Bell Chase NAS

State Police Troops
Louisiana State Police Troops

TV News coverage of Hurricane Katrina

NEW ORLEANS TV

http://www.wwltv.com WWL TV has live coverage. They use Windows Media 9. Click on "watch WWL-TV live news broadcast".

http://www.wdsu.com WDSU TV New Orleans has live coverage.

BILOXI - GULFPORT - PASCAGOULA TV

http://www.wlox.com You will find archived videos of Katrina on WLOX TV. also this message : "WLOX managers suggest the best way to find news of friends and family is through HAM radio operators. There is a HAM radio operator stationed at WLOX."

NEW ORLEANS RADIO

http://www.wwl.com Live news provided by United Radio of New Orleans and WWL 870. You will need Windows Media to listen. WWL transmits with 50,000 watts on 870 and can be heard over most of the U.S. in the evenings.


Shortwave Radio Simulcast of WWL via WHRI

http://www.whri.com/index.cfm/fa/wwl

Shortwave frequencies:

daily schedule: (all times CDT)

5.835 Midnite to 6 AM CDT daily.

11.875 7 AM to 9 AM CDT

15.285 9 AM to 3 PM CDT

9.840 5 PM to 7 PM CDT

Saturday schedule:

5.835 midnite to 7 AM

15.285 9 AM to noon

9.840 6 PM to 7 PM

5.835 7 PM to 9 PM

5.835 10 PM to 7 AM

Sunday schedule:

5.835 9 PM to 7 AM

15.285 9 AM to noon

15.285 1 PM to 5 PM

5.835 9 PM to 12 AM


Rescue Operations

TFRs - Temporary Flight Restrictions

  • New Orleans / Baton Rouge TFR - Omaha-44 (US Customs P-3 AWACS out of Corpus Christi) is providing the primary TFR operational logistics and tasking to rescue aircraft in SE Louisiana.
  • Mississippi Coast TFR - Omaha-45 (US Customs P-3 AWACS out of Corpus Christi) is providing the primary TFR operational logistics and tasking to rescue aircraft for the Mississippi Coast. (No longer active, kept here for historical purposes)

NOTE: the Mississippi Coast TFR is still in effect, however ATC is back operational in Mississippi, therefor CBP P-3s are no longer providing Airborne support. T

  • US Ships - Aircraft operating in the vicinity of US Navy Ships must contact them on 277.800 / 123.450

VHF/UHF Operations

You can only hear these in the local area -- to monitor, see the feed above.

  • 123.000 and 123.025 AM is used for helo intercoordination in the New Orleans Metro area.
  • 345.000 is the USCG Primary Air to Air / Air to Ground Frequency; also referred to as "OMAHA Control"
  • 126.875 is an additional TFR Coordination Frequency
  • Marine Channel 16 (156.8) and 22 (157.100) are used by the USCG for operations.
  • 238.650, 289.650, 138.450, 138.475, 138.525, and 142.250 have been passed as New Orleans Scene Communications Frequencies.
  • 257.800 New Orleans Convention Center Ops - Callsign: SUPERMAN (IDed by Omaha 44)
  • 351.200 MOBILE AIR Primary
  • 233.375 USS BATAAN Tower
  • 138.125 Berman Highway LZ (AM mode)
  • 139.000 AM BUFFALO LZ

VHF/UHF Unid Users

  • 228.900
  • 321.300 Armed support
  • 240.4 "front end come up on 240.4"

HF Operations

  • The USCG is using their HF frequencies of 5696, 8983, 11202 USB for long distance comms. 11202 is the primary scene HF frequency for daytime operations.
  • The Department of Homeland Security Assets, USCG, and ICE are using the COTHEN network extensively for comms.
  • US Government SHARES (Shared Resources) freuquency assignments for Katrina response (traffic is being handled and has been monitored on the primary frequencies):
    • 14.396.5 - Primary national frequency (day)
    • 14.455.0 - Alternate national frequency (day)
    • 7.632.0 - Primary national frequency (night)
    • 9.064.0 - Alternate national frequency (night) old?
    • 5.901.0 - Alternate national frequency (night) old?
    • 3.216.0 - Primary regional frequency (night) old?
    • 3.361.0 - Alternate regional frequency (night) old?
    • 4.513.0 - Alternate regional frequency (night) old?

Courtesy of Hugh Stegman's hurricane list

  • SHARES Coordination Network (Voice/Pactor)
    1. 5236.0 Ch.1 (night voice primary)
    2. 14396.5 Ch.2 (daytime voice primary), also old National Communications System pri
    3.  ? Ch.3
    4. 7632.0 Ch.4
    5. 9106.0 Ch.5
    6.  ? Ch.6
    7. 20107.0 Ch.7
    8. 26812.0 Ch.8
    9. 6800.0 Ch.9 (PACTOR BBS)
    10. 13242.0 Ch.10
  • SHARES Coordination Network ALE
    1.  ? Ch.1
    2.  ? Ch.2
    3. 4490.0 Ch.3
    4. 5711.0 Ch.4
    5.  ? Ch.5
    6. 11217.0 Ch.6
    7. 15094.0 Ch.7
    8. 17487.0 Ch.8
  • SHARES Users
    1. 4582.0 CAP, National Clg & Emergency, Pacific Alternate -Katrina tfc heard here
    2. 7381.0 US Navy MARS
    3. 7540.0 US Air Force MARS
    4. 7552.1 NTA
    5. 7635.0 CAP Command Net
    6. 9197.0 Federal Highway Administration
    7. 10493.0 National Emergency Coordination Net day primary, also FEMA Foxtrot 26
    8. 10586.5 new SCN channel Xray Foxtrot
    9. 10891.0 Federal Highway Administration
    10. 13457.0 Primary (old?) - also Federal Aviation Administration
    11. 13993.0 USAF MARS
    12. 13996.0 US Army MARS primary guard fq
    13. 14383.5 US Navy MARS
    14. 14493.5 Federal Bureau of Investigation
    15. 14902.0 CAP rescue and relief, all regions

Amateur Radio - Ham Radio Operations

  • 14.325 USB - Primary Hurricane Net Related Operations
  • 14.265 USB - SATERN Net (Salvation Army Relief Network)
  • 7.285 LSB - Emergency traffic day primary
  • 3.873 LSB - Emergency traffic night primary
  • 7.290 LSB - Health and Welfare traffic day primary
  • 3.935 LSB - Health and Welfare traffic night primary
  • 7.260 LSB - Southern Baptist Disaster Relief Coordination (daytime)
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